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Twenty years ago today, Howard Shore took to the podium in front of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra at Wellington Town Hall for the first Fellowship of the Ring recording session.

Every time you guys tease it, it gets pushed back 2 months. Stop it!

Balin's Tomb (m91) was the first piece recorded. On the CR, it can be heard from 1:13-3:01 in the track of the same name. Also recorded on this day - Gollum (m88) and Orc Attack (m93, appears immediately after Balin's Tomb in the CR track of the same name).

It's a nice set!

I was hoping for a better visual representation of this, but the forum’s polling software doesn’t report that way. I think for it to report the way I wanted it to report, I’d have had to make a separate poll for each movie with a “watched” and “have not watched” option for each, which is ludicrous. Once this has been up for a while I’ll move the results into a Google sheet and share some sort of better representation of the data. I’ll even add data for Thor

An exciting period to look into is the time between 1956 and 1962 when young John Williams was personally involved in many session recordings as a pianist, conductor, arranger or co-arranger. Based on your discography you can already count more than 60 albums and 20 singles he was part of during these years! And there are more to be added... So here is another album, just released one month ago: Artist: Jerry Goldsmith Album: Face of Fugitive Featuring John Williams (piano); Intrada Special Collection ISC 466 Recorded December 1958 Released March 23, 2021

5th episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was great. That was exactly the kind of episode that I always wanted to see in The Mandalorian. An episode not focussed on fighting action but letting the protagonists take some time off and think about their motivations and let them reflect on what happened and get aware of their own development.

At least it's hard to miss yours now.

@Tom Guernsey pointed out that London Music Works sounds (at least partially) like a synthetic orchestra. I'm inclined to agree.

Mutt swinging in the vines with those horrible CGI monkeys was just atrocious. Can't believe a filmmaker like Spielberg kept that scene in the final cut.

Hey folks! I've made a few updates to The Music of The Mandalorian in the past few weeks, including the addition of revised write-ups for Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3 and Chapter 4. I have also made a few small discoveries regarding unreleased music in Season 2 (a recent rewatch of Chapter 9 indicates that there's way more missing music than I initially estimated), meaning that the post detailing the amount of music in each episode is in need of an update, which will happen once I've gone over all the chapters again. Don't forget about the isolated score videos and thematic catalogue, which have been up for a few months now! I'm still reviewing the remainder of the write-ups and revising some timestamps, and while I didn't chip away as much as I thought I would over Easter, I'm sure the unfortunate circumstances in my province will keep me homebound for a good long while now, so this will be a good thing to fall back on when I have extra time on my hands. Also, I was reading back on this thread and found a question I wasn't able to answer previously that I can now: Most of the recaps are edits of tracked music with a few loose inserts (strings building up as the recap ends, etc). In some cases, however, there is between 30 seconds to a minute of music that isn't heard anywhere else. This includes the recorder in Chapter 2's recap, unique electronics in Chapter 4, some action-y synth in Chapter 5, and a hopeful string opening to Chapter 9's recap of Season 1, among others. I've added what each recap cue is comprised of to the write-ups. Also, @CGCJ I recently noticed that your spreadsheet has a page marked "Series 1 (Unsorted)" that lists a Chapter 3 cue as Not Forgotten. I'm almost certain this is the missing music from when Mando spots Baby Yoda's favourite trinket on the dashboard, turns off the Crest's engines and decides to go back for him. The timing seems to line up as far as I can tell. It comes after Mando's Back (also unreleased) in sequence. Just wanted to double check as I had noticed this the last time I opened the spreadsheet to figure out which cue was which. Thanks for putting the document together- it's really helped me to stay organized! Anyways, I'll post about any more updates here as they happen. If you're a fan of the show and score or know someone who is, you're welcome to take a look and spread the news to anyone who might be interested. Feedback is always welcome! Thanks and cheers!

This is where we post about Dom Toretto and his automotive adventures to save the world and win street races.

Yes absolutely. Sherlock follows the clues and figures out where he's hiding, which leads them to an underground layer of baby Godzilla eggs. The final battle includes hundreds of freshly hatched baby godzillas.

Absolutely agreed. This is also stuff they hardly do in the films, but I wish they would do more. I think character driven things like this are incredibly underrated and heavily overlooked in the world of mainstream blockbusters. But a lot of it is probably driven by the crowd who think things like this are boring when people aren't punching the hell out of each other.

La La Land easily

I would go so far as to say the movie owes more than 50% of its emotional impact to Gia. He definitely got people around the world bawling at that one cue.

You know I'm just having a laugh😄

Yup. Deal with it. Except for Nirvana, I actually also like all of the bands/artists you mentioned — to one degree or another.

Is that Empire of the Sun?

Yes, sorry, that comment could be misunderstood. I'm not talking about the sound quality (which is absolutely fine), but the lack of dynamic between slow and upbeat, calm and action. Disc 1 is basically 5th gear from beginning to end.

Well, there are also good Yamahas. I had a grand piano which was a Yamaha. But the best is to try out the piano in the store.

I used a bootleg that appeared a few years ago on the place that worshipped the Japanese RPG and claims to be "complete" (I'm not an Indy music expert, so I don't know if this is accurate). But the Concord set seems to be missing just some inserts in cues and about 12 missing cues, some of them being source music. A few of them definetly should've been included (12m2 The Penitent Man Will Pass is great), but otherwise what we have so far is enough for a satisfying experience. Despite that, it would be great if this and the other Indies receive a Matessino definitive edition.

Really small cat...

Today's piano selection. Williams playing an out-of-tune honkytonk piano in this cue from Waxman's HEMINGWAY'S ADVENTURES OF YOUNG MAN (1962):

The Last Crusade As much as I love Raiders, but this might be my favorite Indy score. I'm really fond of Henry Jones Sr.'s theme and the Grail theme, there's a lot of amazing action music (Belly of the Steel Beast is a showstopper) and the finale is really emotional and uplifting... What's there not to love?

Politics aside, this is a tough picture: (Only shows a blank space for me right now, but Twitter is having issues today, so perhaps it'll show up in a bit… if not, here's the link: https://twitter.com/PAImages/status/1383423559884689410)

Oh yeah, sorry, I meant the cardboard box.

Well, now I'm confused. I thought you were talking about a plastic jewel case. Are you talking about the outer cardboard box?

A brilliant red Barchetta from a better vanished time

Eventually, Dom and The Gang will have to race to secure the last gas cars in California before the government seizes them.

Missed that post. But yes, the sound in that one is quite artificial. Missed that post. But yes, the sound in that one is quite artificial. Missed that post. But yes, the sound in that one is quite artificial. Missed that post. But yes, the sound in that one is quite artificial.

Very well deserved! Kevin Kiner's speech for winning:

Wrong.

Btw I.just took a peek to see what FSM is saying about INDY. Some nut job is ranting about transgender characters being in it...( Tin Man in disguise?😅) Nice to see the board there has settled into an era of comity and intellectual rigor since I left. 😎 Better than DOOM, at least.

It's shit

Brutal couple of years, huh, Shorty? First Marion, then Mutt.

Really great to hear extra details and greater emphasis on certain sections of the Tintin Main Titles. It's one great perks of re-recordings

I think it would be cool for a brief mention or cameo from Mutt. I prefer when sequels in franchises actually acknowledge their shittier installments, instead of trying to hide them.

It is very promising! One of the biggest disappointments of KOTCS for me was the underwhelming characters written for actors Ray Winstone and ESPECIALLY John Hurt.

He was in a pretty good movie recently that not a lot of people saw called Another Round (Druk).

Bespin, I am collector of John Williams records and a big fan of your website! Actually, it`s amazing to see how many albums are connected to maestro John Williams. It must have been a lot work to add them! Therefore, I would like to support you and will let you know another albums in the near future. Here is the first one: Artist: Carmen McRae Album: Carmen For Cool Ones Featuring John T. Williams (piano) on tracks "Any old time", "What`s new?", "Without a word of warning", "The night we call it a day"; Decca DL 8738 Recorded in Los Angeles, December 5, 16, 1957 and April 21, 1958 Released in 1958 Reissued in 2012, Fresh Sound Records

I think he's a good man.

The man is richer than sin and still does his own shopping at normie department stores. I admire him now!

Be that as it may, the music was wonderfully used in the film

I relistened to Elfman's Justice League score in full a few days ago. If I'm honest, it's not as bad as people make it out to be (and even then I think most just dislike it because it doesn't use most of Zimmer's themes). It's actually quite good IMO. There's a lot of stuff that works. Steppenwolf's theme is amazing, the usage of the 89 Batman theme are great, Flash's theme is great, the orchestral version of the Wonder Woman theme is really good etc. It's a pretty decent score. I think it has a lot more going on musically than Holkenborg's score for the Snyder cut and is ultimately a better listen.